Businesses located at 40 State Street: Knox & Co., clothiers. The business is owned by Thomas Knox, who also had a footwear business at 42 State St in Auburn, NY. The laundry business of Michael A. Waring. The building was also Waring's place of residence.
Source of Building Data: 1875 Boyd's Auburn Directory, 1875-6, containing the names of its citizens, a compendium of its government, and of the public and private institutions, together with a Business Directory of Union Springs, Aurora, and villages on the Southern Central Railway.